Starspheres
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Hi there, I’ve been reading through this forum (and others) and there are several threads about creating custom starspheres that are just a simple cube with 6 large textures facing inwards (not tiled). Trouble is none of these threads report any success. Has anyone actually succeeded in doing this?
I’ve tried looking through a few mods but I couldn’t find any cmps made this way.Has anyone released a cmp made like this?
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Yes, I’ve made them this way. It works, and is no different than making any other starsphere.
The texture I put on them really don’t fit with the rest of the mod, so I didn’t add them to it. It was important to get a consistent look throughout the mod rather than having the mod look like it was a giant jigsaw cobbled together.
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Would I be able to have a copy of that cmp please? From the threads I read they looked quite complicated to make work.
I’m fairly new to modding FL and I haven’t made any kind of starsphere before.
btw. The reason I want to make a starsphere like that is to try out an idea I had to improve the scale of Freelancer. The idea is to remove all the planets and suns and have the planet pictured in the starsphere. (taking up about half the sky)
Then systems will actually become orbits. eg. Instead of ‘New York’, you’d have ‘Manhattan orbit’.Do you know if anyone has tried this before?
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Can’t say I have heard this before but it would be interesting to see.
